Goliath & Davids

In 27 years of labor wars John Lewis has taken on all comers: federal attorneys, industry's smartest corporation lawyers, U.S. Presidents. In 1919 he was cold-conked but he has been fighting ever since. This week, in one of his toughest legal battles, he faced new opponents:

Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, young (39), huge (6 ft. 3 in., 237-lb.) Secretary of the Interior. Although he works like a piston, Cap Krug is still largely untried in the tougher aspects of his job. But he learns fast and has a stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed by WPB, Krug went with it. In 1944, he was commissioned a Navy lieutenant commander, served in Normandy and Italy, was home on leave when chosen to replace Donald Nelson as WPB chief. At war's end, Krug left the Government to try and make some money for his wife and two children, but came back last March after the firing of Harold Ickes as Harry Truman's youngest Cabinet member.

Tom C. Clark, 47, tall, tireless but untried U.S. Attorney General who is up against his first big test. His prime legal asset: reluctance to file suits unless he is sure he can win them. A better than average student and athlete at the University of Texas, well-to-do, Dallas-born Tom Clark married a Texas coed, won every case he tried as Dallas's district attorney, became a protege of Senator Tom Connally. A dyed-in-the-wool, glad-handing Democrat, he joined the Department of Justice in 1937.

Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 69-year-old U.S. district judge appointed to the bench in 1939 in return (according to Maryland Democrats) for backing Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court--an outburst that caused the U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse the case on the grounds of intemperate language.

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